25.10.2024 at 18–18.50
26.10.2024 at 14–14.50
29.10.2024 at 18–18.50

1st floor, Kiasma Theatre
Tickets: 25 / 15 €
Incl. admission to the exhinitions on the day of the performance. Tickets from Kiasma’s info 1h before the show, as well as pay-what-you-can tickets as long as there is room in each show.
in English, in Finnish

Combining different art forms, the performance brings to the stage a house party arranged by roommates. Part of Feels like home exhibition programme.

THIS IS AN INVITE:

It’s time to party! We’ve got a few gigs and surprises lined up for you.
Our hearts are wide open <3

Welcome!
xx,

Superstars

The debut performance of the Superstar collective, Homesick Superstars, features a band of roommates reared on popular culture, a house party, and big emotions. Combining elements of dance, performance, and theatre, the production is a maximalist and trivial luxury melodrama that presents the home as a place to live with superstars.

Part of the Feels Like Home exhibition programme at Kiasma, the performance was selected through an open call in autumn 2023.

The language of the performance is Finnish, but you can follow the show without knowing the Finnish language.

Working group
The Superstar Collective is a performing arts group with members active in fields such as dance, dramaturgy, acting, visual arts, and stage design. Because of their diverse professional backgrounds, the members view performance and performing through different lenses, resulting in exceptional dramaturgy and variety of performance methods in their practice and interventions. The group is committed to creating art collectively, democratically, and with sensitivity to each member’s needs. In an era that values individuality, their collective negotiation about methods and content is especially relevant.

The Superstar Collective was founded at the Theatre Academy in 2021. The premiere at Kiasma Theatre marks their first public performance. The collective has invited to the team lighting designer Mia Jalerva from Kiasma Theatre and Iida Hägglund to serve as sound designer.

Paula Nousiaisen creates art that blends dance, visual art, and costume design with pop culture. They define their work as a way to explore their own identity and relationship to the world. Pleasure is a particularly important aspect of their art, which involves dreams, nightmares, sexuality, alter egos, identities, and desires. Nousiainen holds a Bachelor of Dance from the Theatre Academy (2023), and has completed elective studies in the costume design programme at Aalto University. Nousiainen also has a qualification in dance from the Riveria Vocational School in Outokumpu (2019).

Tuulia Ritsilä is a dance and performance artist engaged in collective projects, independent processes, and as a performer. Her practice focuses on wearing down abrasive norms and exploring the transformative potential of fantasies. Her multimedia works often examine embodied imagination, spatial relationships, images, video, and poetic texts. Ritsilä revels in and squeezes the cores and intersections of love, lesbian queer pleasure, sass, cuteness, girlishness, living environments, fantasy worlds, and imaginary creatures. The guiding values of her practice are ecological responsibility, promoting equality and accessibility, and fostering a working culture that supports resilience and mental health. In 2025, Ritsilä will collaborate with Heini Hermunen on a year-long project, sweet spot, that examines romance from a queer-centric perspective.

Toini Nissinen is a Helsinki-based scenographer specialising in set design, costume design, and conceptual design for performances. Beyond performance design, Nissinen is active in visual arts, film, and exhibition design. Nissinen holds bachelor’s degrees in scenography from the Theatre Academy and in art studies from Helsinki University, and she is currently pursuing master’s degrees in both fields. Nissinen drawn to open-minded teams and cultures, expanding job descriptions, and the queer gaze. Her work explores the relationship between scenography and the body, as well as the multisensory potential of space as a medium and way of being that engages the viewer’s experience.

Senja Rajalin is an actor and theatre-maker currently pursuing a master’s degree in acting at the Theatre Academy. She has previously studied dramaturgy and playwriting at the Theatre Academy, as well as sociology and gender studies at the University of Helsinki. For Rajalin, sustainability, presence, and emotional courage are the hallmarks of art making.

Leo Terävä is a dance artist based in Helsinki and Loviisa. He has a BA in dance from the Theatre Academy in 2023, and now works as a freelancer, dancing, performing, teaching, and designing choreographies in various contexts. In 2024, Terävä will join the artistic curatorial team at the Art in Lov residency in Loviisa. His practice focuses on humour, rhythm, emotions, courage, and shame, explored through improvisation, imagination, and his evolving practice. Terävä has performed at Zodiak, the Winter Dance Festival in Loviisa, and in productions of the Theatre Academy, among others.

Ellen Aunio is a dancer, performer and artist currently studying dance at the Theatre Academy. She graduated as a dancer from Tampere Conservatory in 2020. Aunio’s greatest passion is dance. Avoiding obscurity, lukewarmness and gentleness, Aunio values honesty, clarity, entertainment, and people. She wants to entangle herself in communities and be more than just a body. In both her profession as a dancer and in life, Aunio’s dream is to get kicks out of it. She wants to be known for her identity, her honesty, and her virtuosity.

Lempi Koponen actively strives towards kindness in their personal life. Growing up queer with a disability is a continual source of subversive insights and of safety within communities. Koponen dreams of a practice that would allow their identity to shine with maximum brilliance. In order to achieve this, however, they must constantly navigate structures and social norms, and experience their emotions fully at times and more restrained at others. For Koponen, art is a way to verbalise their experiences, and enjoy aesthetics arising from within. They are playful, curious, sweet, and often naive. They take a critical yet often loving attitude towards knowledge and theory. Koponen would like to film a documentary about their life. They hold a bachelor degree in dance from the Theatre Academy.

Iida Hägglund is a Helsinki-based freelance sound designer, sound artist, composer, musician, writer, and performer. She studied music and sound for the moving image at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, and holds a Master’s degree in Theatre and Drama from the Theatre Academy at University of the Arts. Hägglund’s artistic interests focus on feminist practices and themes, as well as the creative process. In her master’s thesis, she developed the sound design concept of girlsound, and in her works she continues to explore what feminist and girlish sound design can be. She has also studied gender dynamics in sound design, and aims in her work to enhance the visibility and access of women and other genders in the field. Hägglund is committed to creating gentle, safe and sustainable working conditions. Her music and sound design have been featured in productions by Blaue Frau, Subfrau and the Swedish Poste Restante collective; the radio drama Over Her Dead Body at Yle; the audio essays Talo Horjahti and girlcrush; the performance Sarvivälke and Ofelia Club at the Finnish National Theatre; and at events such as Hangö Teaterträff, New Performance Turku Biennale, Tampere Theatre Week, The Hope Theatre in London, and the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.

Location and accessibility
Kiasma Theatre is located on the first floor, at the opposite end of the building from the main doors. The theatre has no numbered seats. Jackets and bags can be left to Kiasma’s cloakroom for free.

The top level of Kiasma Theatre is accessible. Weelchair tickets can be bought online. An assistant accompanying a wheelchair user can attend the performance free of charge. If an assistant is accompanying you, please contact the Kiasma service desk in advance: info@kiasma.fi or +358 294 500 501. Theatre is provided with an induction loop.